The lobotomy was developed to treat severe ... an American professor of neurology at George Washington University named Walter Jackson Freeman adopted the procedure. He modified the surgery ...

This terrible need for treatment cleared the path for widespread acceptance of such radical treatments as shock therapy and lobotomy. In the United States, neurology professor Walter Freeman threw ...

The crisis in state mental hospitals motivated Dr. Walter Freeman to devise a simple version of the lobotomy procedure, one that could be used on a mass scale. "All of a sudden America sees these ...

Walter Freeman & James Winston Watts of Washington ... Freeman & Watts’s work. Lobotomy. Dr. Freeman, a poetaster in his spare time, was nervous when he rose to tell a fascinated audience ...